Reposted by MJDNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Incredible chutzpah from a Congress whose one major legislative act was a budget bill that among other things imposed significant new administrative burdens on Medicaid recipients 4434114
Reposted by MJDPaul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If Trump started injecting every immigrant with bubonic plague, the Supreme Court would rule that while they take a year or two to decide if it's constitutional, the program should go forward because to not let Trump inject people with bubonic plague would do irreparable harm to the government 920052
Reposted by MJDNorm Ornstein @normornstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026@jrakove.bsky.social This great piece is even more impt after today's outrageous decision on voting & elections. Roberts & his five fellow radical partisan hacks rewrite or ignore history & the vision of the framers to fit their own ideological & partisan views. t.co/iWQMMGUU4It.cohttps://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/09/24/unitary-executive-theory-history/ 14919
Reposted by MJDMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This would also have been true at any point since 2017, when he first began verbally abusing journalists, engaging in nonstop public lying from the WH, & otherwise abusing the office of the presidency while engaging in unprecedented corruption & authoritarianism. But better late than never, I guess. 311016
Reposted by MJDElon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Headline is not as strongly worded as the quote. 11096298
Reposted by MJDMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole." 12457551515
Reposted by MJDKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Nothing in this @cnn.com piece about Elon Musk's extremist views and the questions and complications they will surely bring for Ken Paxton who must, of course, now be asked to disavow the support of a racist who advocates the Great Replacement Theory and other white nationalist ideas. Not a word.cnn.comMusk has started spending money to help Ken Paxton. Will it help change the course of the Texas Senate race? | CNN PoliticsFor months, Texas Republicans have anxiously awaited the arrival of national resources to help boost Ken Paxton, one of the GOP’s most vulnerable Senate candidates. 591506410
Reposted by MJDStrict Scrutiny Podcast @strictscrutiny.bsky.social · 03/09/2026GET IN LOSER(S), WE'RE REFORMING THE SUPREME COURT! Our HOT SCOTUS REFORM SEPTEMBER bonus series (airing every Thursday!) kicks off with Jamelle Bouie @jamellebouie.net talking about Supreme Court expansion! crooked.com/podcast/we-n...static.klipy.comRegina George: Get in Loser, Shopping!ALT: Regina George: Get in Loser, Shopping! 1554375
Reposted by MJDDavid Rothschild @davmicrot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Republicans' largest donor (by far) is hosting a robust debate on his platform about whether Jews are white. Corporate Media will ask precisely 0 Republicans about their largest donor's all-consuming misogyny, xenophobia, antisemitism, he will instead by referred to as a visionary industrialist. 14638391191
Reposted by MJDDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026In a new piece up on MS NOW I argue that voters deserve to know what exactly Democrats think they can actually deliver if they flip Congress -- given that Trump retains his veto power and has a history of ignoring congressional budgets and subpoenas. www.ms.now/opinion/demo...ms.nowOpinion | Democrats need their own Project 2027If Democrats sell voters an inordinately optimistic view of what they can accomplish, they will be setting themselves up to fail. 77637
Reposted by MJDSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The Trump administration has filed 36 emergency applications since last February, which have generated 31 conclusive rulings. In those 31 rulings, the Court has voted *for* Trump in whole or in part 27 times (87.1%), and against him four times (12.9%). Here's a chart covering all of these rulings: 901865914
Reposted by MJDAtrios @eschatonblog.com · 31/08/2026Day 1, bulldoze the supreme court building 2055794
Reposted by MJDKeith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 26/07/2026NBC's kristen welker was caught laughing it up with Stephen Miller. Stephen Miller who architected the family separation policy. Stephen Miller who pushed the Muslim travel ban. Stephen Miller who oversaw the killing of Americans by ICE agents. This is why independent media is crucial. 78972632444
Reposted by MJDNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Democratic leaders to meet with Trump family to seek common conflicts of interest. 17998130
Reposted by MJDSeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026When America is gone, remember NYT headlines like this and never again ask what role corporate media played in normalizing the most dangerous man on Earth 48494322980
Reposted by MJDNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 22/08/2026In this Washington, DC BDSM dungeon, "ballroom" still means the place the dominatrix takes you when you've been a very bad boy. But they do know this: It's nice to come down here for a break from your day job rubber stamping Trump's whims from your seat on the highest court in the land. 1560785
Reposted by MJDKevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026CTRL + F "authoritarian" NO RESULTS CTRL + F "autocratic" NO RESULTS CTRL + F "tyrannical" NO RESULTS CTRL + F "fascist" NO RESULTS They couldn't even muster a "critics say this is a part of a pattern of..." At this point, this silence amounts to active suppression of expert opinion & context.nytimes.comTrump Threatens Defamation Suit Over National Guard Report, Aiming to Intimidate a Critic (Gift Article)It was the latest example of President Trump’s bid to use the legal system against those who voice unflattering facts and opinions generally protected by the First Amendment. 511627
Reposted by MJDJamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 21/08/2026IMO this is not actually about the Trump administration's credibility, it is about the news media's credibility. 1157476
Reposted by MJDKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/08/2026No matter what metric you use, Republicans have been worse for the economy than Democrats for a century now. And yet they’ll *still* point to the latest mess they created as an argument to elect them again. And half the media will happily help carry their water for them. 1112728654
Reposted by MJDDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Completely inexcusable that this Glenn Thrush NYT article doesn’t include any explanation of what’s wrong with that! How hard would it be to add a paragraph saying DOJ independence is essential to the rule of law because 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/u...nytimes.comBlanche Refuses to Say He’ll Always Be Independent of Trump as Attorney GeneralThe new head of the Justice Department said on “Meet the Press” on Sunday that the president had never asked him to prosecute specific people — and never would. 615248
Reposted by MJDMark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Like everyone else, I have absolutely <no> expectation Thune or Johnson etc. will actually do anything. But the fact that journalists keep going to their press conferences & don’t even bother to ask, “Why are you violating your oaths & letting Trump destroy the pillars of 🇺🇸 security?” is maddening. 531673
Reposted by MJDKen Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Every day you read two headlines, one like "Trump orders U.S. Aircraft Carrier to get him Chik-fil-a" and one like "Hakeem Jeffries: We Must Be Very Cautious in the Way We Consider Speaking About Methods of Bringing About Incremental Change to U.S. Tax Code" 182147390
Reposted by MJDVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Sociology is catching strays for “activism” while a professor of politics at Princeton launders white supremacy in the Times by co-writing with a propagandist from the Washington Free Beacon. 524265
Reposted by MJDKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 13/08/2026You do not, under any circumstances, have to hand it to Karoline Leavitt and her team. JFC 842296227
Reposted by MJDMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I’m not saying Norman’s call for a coup should've been mentioned in all of NYT’s last 92 stories that cited him. But not once? Even in a recent “5 Things” story about Norman, NYT ignored the traitorous text while saying he “has been a real estate developer for 4 decades.” That's normalization. 7/7🧵nytimes.com5 Things to Know About Ralph Norman, Republican Senate Candidate in South Carolina (Gift Article)The longtime lawmaker, a member of an ultraconservative group of House members, came in third place in the Republican primary for governor this year. 14882227
Reposted by MJDDan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12/08/2026When you have an agenda and when you don’t: 291017242
Reposted by MJDJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Ironically, the way mainstream papers lower the bar to give space to middling hacks in the name of ideological diversity is the closest real-world phenomeon to how MAGA imagines DEI works. Does anyone think we’d know the name Mark Thiessen if he were on the center-left competing for that slot? 91737296
Reposted by MJDmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/08/2026NYT wanted to write a story about "moderate Dems go to war with DSA," looked around, and the best they could find was a *proposal* by Third Way to spend $15M against left candidates. The story is not evidence that *Democrats* and the left hate each other... it's evidence that the NYT hates both. 633607691
Reposted by MJDD. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 06/08/2026📌If you are Third Way, or one of these other centrist groups littered with phony ex-Republicans, and are more interested in lecturing and beating progressives than you are MAGA … If you want to scold other Democratic voters for their votes … YOU are the problem. 710726
Reposted by MJDLarry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Yet another story framed around Trump’s supposed anger rather than his incompetence. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...nytimes.comAn Angry Trump Struggles to Understand Iran’s Defiant LeadersIran’s leaders have perplexed several American presidents, perhaps none more than President Trump. 2037282
Reposted by MJDSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Lots of efforts to prop up #SCOTUS have focused on the claim that the Court has shown itself to be “independent” of Trump. As today’s “One First” explains, “independence” may make it possible for the Court to rule against the other branches, but it’s only the means—not the end—of judicial review:stevevladeck.com242. The "Independent Court" NarrativeEfforts to defend the Supreme Court *because* of its independence miss both the real-world impacts of its behavior and the reason *why* independence matters. 1120554
Reposted by MJDLarry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Another example of the problem with the fixation with Trump’s putative emotions: here a story about the Trump administration’s corruption, incompetence, and venality is framed as one about Trump’s “wrath.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...nytimes.comIn Dropping Reflecting Pool Case, Pirro Draws Trump’s WrathJeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney in Washington, blamed shoddy construction, contradicting President Trump’s pet theory. Mr. Trump said he disagreed “100%” with her. 32771183
Reposted by MJDJeff Yang @originalsp.in · 27/07/2026Mamdani’s online ecosystem, which uses complementary social media platforms as a tool for radical access, transparency and engagement with government (in a FUN way)—not just memes or PR rehashes—is something Dems need to study, not mock or dismiss. I’m not sure why that’s even controversial. 411723
Reposted by MJDAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Manosphere grifters have figured out that some men are easily manipulated by making them feel insecure about their masculinity. The GOP has turned this sales pitch into both an ideology and a campaign strategy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... 752140579
Reposted by MJDEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 25/07/2026It would help a lot if a lot of journalists and pundits weren't using Twitter as their assignment editor, several years into its transition into Stormfront. 344618801
Reposted by MJDMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Mamdani criticizes Netanyahu. Later, a crazy man stabs a Jewish man and an Asian man. And we get an article suggesting that while one stabbing (dismissed in six words) is just a shrug, the other implicates the mayor. Disgraceful framing. Shame on everyone involved. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/n...nytimes.comAfter Stabbings, a Rise in Jewish Fears and Questions for Mamdani (Gift Article)Some politicians said Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s criticism of Israel had created a dangerous environment. He pushed back, condemning the stabbings of two men on the Upper West Side and defending his state... 1013541688
Reposted by MJDKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 25/07/2026The only conclusion that can be drawn is that the White House press corps knows and accepts both the appearance and reality of its obeisance 922211519
Reposted by MJDTyler Britten @tyler.britten.us · 24/07/2026NYT: Sorry we can’t say he’s clearly lying because we don’t know what’s in his head Also NYT: He’s grieving, can’t you tell?? 24613
Reposted by MJDryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 21/07/2026here’s my offer, The Atlantic magazine, I will read the next “reactionary pretends to give honest advice to Democrats” take if you let me write a piece where I, a DSA member, pretend to give honest advice to Republicans 833986540
Reposted by MJDGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 30/10/2025When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.” 22294233187
Reposted by MJDAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 21/07/2026hey does anyone know where i can read a profile of some dumb asshole that fell for a reality show hosts bull shit and it took a decade for them to realize theyd been duped? oh every day in every major publication? awesome thanks 464708684
Reposted by MJDElizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways. 22681002174
Reposted by MJDMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Is there an editor at the New York Times whose official job is to put lipstick on pigs? 791032190
Reposted by MJDDavid Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Just want to say that @jaketapper.bsky.social wrote a book on the wrong candidate’s dementia and that should be obvious to every American. 270100891968
Reposted by MJDRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that the law should permit victims of ICE abuse to sue not just individual officers, but supervisors and policymakers like Stephen Miller and Gregory Bovino. A Democratic president and Congress could do this in 2029. And they could make it retroactive.nytimes.comOpinion | ICE Is Out of Control. Here’s What to Do About It.Congress must push back against our inhumane immigration tactics. 13776362013
Reposted by MJDDanielle Kurtzleben @titonka.bsky.social · 15/07/2026IT HAS ALL ALWAYS BEEN GENDER. Yes this is the third time I’ve reposted this but IT HAS ALWAYS ALLLLL BEEN GENDER ALL OF IT ALL THE WAY DOWN. 1937851
Reposted by MJDjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/07/2026in a lot of ways the current republican government is just the worst, extractive red state governance taken national. total hostility to public goods, total indifference to long-term investment, and a monomaniacal interest in using the state to enrich private benefactors 7455181319
